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that's going to wrap it up for me. i appreciate your time. thanks so much for joining me. i'll see you back here on monday. don't go anywhere, though. "now" comes up next, and guest hosting ari. >> we do have a strong panel today. joining me is msnbc contributor and georgetown university professor michael eric dyson. salon.com's irene carmon, and white house correspondent for the huffington post, and the daily show co-creator and author lynn winstead. we are just one week after the tragic shooting in connecticut, and the executive vice president of the nra has now broken his silence. he says it's the good guys against the bad guys, and everyone should have a gun. i disagree. if you look today at the speech that we showed just earlier here on msnbc, it's the first time since the newtown mass murder that the nra has spoken out in a speech that brought out the protesters. >> see there? several protesters interrupting. the nra did not focus on regulating semiautomatic weapons in this address, an address i think can only be described as combative. wayne la pierre attacked the p
that's going to wrap it up for me. i appreciate your time. thanks so much for joining me. i'll see you back here on monday. don't go anywhere, though. "now" comes up next, and guest hosting ari. >> we do have a strong panel today. joining me is msnbc contributor and georgetown university professor michael eric dyson. salon.com's irene carmon, and white house correspondent for the huffington post, and the daily show co-creator and author lynn winstead. we are just one week after...
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oh, let me guess --ou see this? more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before it's too late. this reduced sodium soup says it may help lower cholesterol, how does it work? you just have to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies and beans, that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> according to the fbi gun background checks have nearly doubled since 2002 with more than 16.8 million gun checks in 2012 alone. in total, americans own nearly 300 million guns averaging almost one per person, but most of those weapons are concentrated in the hands of a rel
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joining me now from washington, the man with all the answers, cnbc's ayman jabbers. it's always so good and important to have you on the show. >> thanks. >> in general, but on days like today, where the numbers come out and we all think to ourselves, is this everything or nothing? what do these numbers mean and what do they portend for the fiscal cliff negotiations? >> it strengthens the president's hand. it was a good number, not great, because of some of the revisions we saw to previous months but the president can tout a record of job creation, so that's encouraging. the unemployment rate went down to 7.7% for some of the wrong reasons. a lot of people left the labor force. that's not something you want to see. you want to see more people coming into the labor force, encouraged that they have a chance at getting a job. nonetheless, 146,000 jobs created. that's good for the president. gives him a chance to go out there and have some momentum going into the fiscal cliff talks. i was just at the speaker's press conference down the hall at the top of last hour and he
joining me now from washington, the man with all the answers, cnbc's ayman jabbers. it's always so good and important to have you on the show. >> thanks. >> in general, but on days like today, where the numbers come out and we all think to ourselves, is this everything or nothing? what do these numbers mean and what do they portend for the fiscal cliff negotiations? >> it strengthens the president's hand. it was a good number, not great, because of some of the revisions we saw...
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>> right. >> the house people are telling me, house republicans are telling me, that if the margin in the senate is, like, 70-30, then clearly speaker boehner will have enough juice to be able to get it through the house. by the way, there is at this point in time no crazy, like, right-wing fall to get rid of john boehner. they don't have the votes to get rid of him. >> he is still going to be speaker. >> even if he passes with democratic votes, fine. so he passes it. here's the problem. what i don't understand is that everyone is screaming about deficit reduction. don't forget who asked and demanded for deficit reduction. when i talked to a capitol hill staffer, here's what he said. he said -- this is very important -- "if it's a status quo election some kind of deal that staifz off sec quest rags. >> the republicans. >> i have to say it, it is the republicans that the point that are arguing against deficit reduction. they want to cancel the see quester, which is military spending cut. >> only on their terms. >> they would like spending cuts, but they would like -- they won't be ebbi
>> right. >> the house people are telling me, house republicans are telling me, that if the margin in the senate is, like, 70-30, then clearly speaker boehner will have enough juice to be able to get it through the house. by the way, there is at this point in time no crazy, like, right-wing fall to get rid of john boehner. they don't have the votes to get rid of him. >> he is still going to be speaker. >> even if he passes with democratic votes, fine. so he passes it....
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it's funny to me. you take away that chart we looked at earlier, and we're just a panel talking about the plot of general hospital. we don't know exactly why the nurse did that and turned on the weather machine or whatever it is. >> who is the nurse? >> that's a good question. >> oh, blacky. >> there is a sense that the republican party would not be doing all of this if they could avoid it, right? to meagan's point, if you look at the polling on this, 69% of the public disapproves of the way republicans are handling this. 17% approve. this is not good in terms of party management going forward. maybe it helps you in 2014. >> you pointed it out. we've spoken in many metaphors already, but the one that's most apt is luke's dance metaphor. the president has come to walts. boehner has represented himself as that single partner, but as soon as the music starts, he has to go back and he has to form a conga line that will get him to the floor so that he can waltz with the president. it is a leadership issue,
it's funny to me. you take away that chart we looked at earlier, and we're just a panel talking about the plot of general hospital. we don't know exactly why the nurse did that and turned on the weather machine or whatever it is. >> who is the nurse? >> that's a good question. >> oh, blacky. >> there is a sense that the republican party would not be doing all of this if they could avoid it, right? to meagan's point, if you look at the polling on this, 69% of the public...
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bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. now, i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ woman ] learn from my story. i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don. >> are we doing enough from my mental health perspective to reach out to kids and families who are obviously in trouble? my sense is we are not, and we need to look within our own state, within our own nation. >> as details emerge about suspected shooter adam lanza, connecticut governor dan malloy is calling for a broad response that improves mental health services with more stringent gun laws. for some on the right mental health is -- >> don't think this tha this country has addressed the mental health issue. >> that may be true, but according to the medical journal the lancet less than 3% to 5% of all crimes in this country involve people suffering
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once, shame on me. shame on you. don't fool me again. >> exact line which was -- >> yeah. but it is important because -- president bush ended by saying don't fool me again. there is a feeling in politics that you can always mess up once. washington is a tough place for new presidents. this is not a new president anymore. this is not a new battle over the fact that you have people who, i think, it is fair to say have announced publicly that they will threaten our -- credit rating and our economy to some degree depending on your analysis of what the fiscal cliff means to get the policies they want. why is it -- i ask you this seriously. i don't know the answer. why does it seem like the president still doesn't get that? >> for whatever reason, it is hard important me to delve too deeply into psychology here but -- this president has always approached washington in a bit after different mindset. i think the lesson he took from the election might be different from what his supporters hoped to take from this
once, shame on me. shame on you. don't fool me again. >> exact line which was -- >> yeah. but it is important because -- president bush ended by saying don't fool me again. there is a feeling in politics that you can always mess up once. washington is a tough place for new presidents. this is not a new president anymore. this is not a new battle over the fact that you have people who, i think, it is fair to say have announced publicly that they will threaten our -- credit rating and...
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>> let me give you a fact. if you look at the ten-year window in the president's budget plan compared to the ryan republican budget plan, the president actually has more medicare savings in that ten-year window. for example, he asks the pharmaceutical companies to pay higher rebates so the federal government saves more money. he has a number of other reform measures. in the ten year e window, which is what some of our republican colleagues seem to be focused on, the president's budget achieves more medicare savings on top of the 716 than the ryan republican budget. it's just a very different approach. he doesn't believe that we should be passing those burdens on to seniors with median incomes in the range of $22,000. but he actually has more savings in that ten-year window. but a very different philosophy on how you go about doing it. one way you modernize the medicare system to focus on the value of care, not volume of care, whereas republicans define reform simply to be passing on those additional costs to se
>> let me give you a fact. if you look at the ten-year window in the president's budget plan compared to the ryan republican budget plan, the president actually has more medicare savings in that ten-year window. for example, he asks the pharmaceutical companies to pay higher rebates so the federal government saves more money. he has a number of other reform measures. in the ten year e window, which is what some of our republican colleagues seem to be focused on, the president's budget...
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, about half of republican voters agree with me on this. so, you know, at some point there's got to be, i think, a recognition on the part of my republican friends that, you know, take the deal. they will be able to claim that they have worked with me over the last two years to reduce the deficit more than any other deficit reduction package. that we will have stabilized it for ten years. that's a significant achievement for them. they should be proud of it, but they keep on finding ways to say no as opposed to finding ways to say yes. and i don't know how much of that just has to do with, you know, it is very hard for them to say yes to me. but, you know, at some point, you know, they've got to take me out of it and think about their voters. and think about what's best for the country. and if they do that, if they are not worried about who's winning and who's losing, you know, did they score a point on the president, extract that last little concession, did they, you know, force him to do something he really doesn't want to do just for the
, about half of republican voters agree with me on this. so, you know, at some point there's got to be, i think, a recognition on the part of my republican friends that, you know, take the deal. they will be able to claim that they have worked with me over the last two years to reduce the deficit more than any other deficit reduction package. that we will have stabilized it for ten years. that's a significant achievement for them. they should be proud of it, but they keep on finding ways to say...
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>> first, let me just talk about democrats. you're too young to remember this, ari, but there was a period of time when people were wondering -- >> i dyed my hair, john. >> people were wondering when democrats could ever win a presidential election again, that's because they were on the wrong side of main street america, on some cultural change happening in the country. they were on the wrong side of issues like the death penalty, on issues like the use of force in foreign affairs, and it wasn't until they'd gotten whacked, george mcgovern lost overwhelmingly, mike ducacas was beaten pretty soundly. after all those things happened, the democratic party through bill clinton and others like him trying to change it, made the party more acceptable to the american people. republicans have not gotten there yet. it was a party as we saw in the election, a declining -- white share of the vote is the declining share of the electorate. their share is going up, but not enough to compensate. >> right. >> right now the sort of primal scream
>> first, let me just talk about democrats. you're too young to remember this, ari, but there was a period of time when people were wondering -- >> i dyed my hair, john. >> people were wondering when democrats could ever win a presidential election again, that's because they were on the wrong side of main street america, on some cultural change happening in the country. they were on the wrong side of issues like the death penalty, on issues like the use of force in foreign...
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with me today, ben stein. steve cornaki is joining us, as well. president obama returned to washington moments ago, cutting short his christmas vacation. the president has now spoken with all four congressional leaders, according to the white house communications director he. the house remains on vacation, but there are a few signs of life in the capital. gop leaders have released a new statement with an old message to the senate. the ball is in your court. the statement says the house will take action on whatever the senate can pass, but the senate first must act. well, this morning, senate majority leader reid slammed the house republicans not not even showing up. >> if we go over the cliff, and it looks like that's where we are headed, the house of representatives as we speak with four days left after today before the first of the year aren't here with the speaker having told them they will give them 48 hours inside. i can't imagine their conscious. >> well, senator reid is expected to hold a news conference about the talks this afternoon. so h
with me today, ben stein. steve cornaki is joining us, as well. president obama returned to washington moments ago, cutting short his christmas vacation. the president has now spoken with all four congressional leaders, according to the white house communications director he. the house remains on vacation, but there are a few signs of life in the capital. gop leaders have released a new statement with an old message to the senate. the ball is in your court. the statement says the house will...
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oh, let me guess --ou see this? more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before it's too late. >>> with respect to the issue of whether gays and lesbians should be able to get married, i have spoken about this recently, as i have said. my feelings about this are constantly evolving. i struggle with this. >> that was president obama in 2010. his evolution has progressed rapidly in less than two years. >> at a certain point i've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able it get married, and i continue to believe that this is an issue that is going to be worked out at the local level because histo
oh, let me guess --ou see this? more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before it's too late. >>> with respect to the...
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it's been per lexing to me as well. i was as shocked, perhaps even more shocked, than anybody to be asked going back into september of 2011, that's when we first received an e-mail from the state department that said u.s. state department sponsored trip to bahrain for a motivational speech. i should make this clear as much as i am a rock musician i wasn't going there so much to play music. this was more about spreading a positive party message. when i say party, i mean about celebrating life, enjoying the opportunities that you have. as i understood it, bahrain was very excited about this trip and they're not the ones that canceled this. it was actually the state department. at the last second, who had a change of heart, and i don't know with why. >> putting the kibosh on it. on a serious note, there is a lot of -- a lot going on in bahrain. read an excerpt from a "washington post" piece by the ceo of human rights first. she says -- very serious situation over there. we were talking during the break the fact -- >> very
it's been per lexing to me as well. i was as shocked, perhaps even more shocked, than anybody to be asked going back into september of 2011, that's when we first received an e-mail from the state department that said u.s. state department sponsored trip to bahrain for a motivational speech. i should make this clear as much as i am a rock musician i wasn't going there so much to play music. this was more about spreading a positive party message. when i say party, i mean about celebrating life,...
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i want to thank you for hanging with me through this. andrea mitchell will have continuing coverage of the shooting in newtown, connecticut. stay with us. >> and thanks very much. right now on "andrea mitchell reports" a horrifying scene unfolding in connecticut at an elementary school. a shooting at a newtown school leaves multiple dead, including, we believe, the gunman. here's how one child described what happened. connecticut state police are still on the scene after leading children from sandy hook elementary school. witnesses describe the scene saying it was horrific. any moment from now we are expecting a live news conference from the connecticut state police. we'll bring it to you live as soon as it begins. as we continue here live in washington, i'm joined by pete williams and our nbc newsroom. pete, you've been hearing from federal and local officials, state official
i want to thank you for hanging with me through this. andrea mitchell will have continuing coverage of the shooting in newtown, connecticut. stay with us. >> and thanks very much. right now on "andrea mitchell reports" a horrifying scene unfolding in connecticut at an elementary school. a shooting at a newtown school leaves multiple dead, including, we believe, the gunman. here's how one child described what happened. connecticut state police are still on the scene after leading...
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once, shame on you, fool me twice, it was actually shame on me. >> that's what republicans are saying exactly this, the white house has opportunities in the future in which it can raise taxes on the wealthiest and it should take those opportunities in order to get us through this crunch period. do the minimum that is possible now to stop us falling over the fiscal cliff, then when it comes to actual tax reform later next year, that will be the white house opportunity. democrats are saying we don't buy that. we're going to do it now, a majority. country supports us doing it and we're going to do it right now. it's a little bit the inverse of the republican argument that if we give you tax hikes now, how do we know we're getting the spending cuts later. democrats are saying the same thing, but in reverse. >> they feel they have the wind in their sails, not only because of the election, but people talk about debt ceiling being leverage. it would not be good for their party. >> that's exactly right. >> let's hear from jen first, ezra. i have a policy question for you. >> i think the debt
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no, if the rules let me do this, i will abuse them. that's what's happened. >> senator, i got to ask you, you know, the option that senator reid may use to pass filibuster reform is referred to as the nuclear option, which doesn't exactly smack of bipartisanship, and even 134 senate democrats, like carl evan and chuck schumer, have said this is not necessarily the right way to go about it. is there any concern that if this is passed through the nuclear option, that that increases partisan gridlock on the hill? >> well, we would all prefer to have a super majority adopt rules, but what we know historically is that the rules are only changed when you first know that 51 are prepared and ready under the constitution to adopt new rules. that then drives negotiations, so unless we're prepared to say we've had enough of failing our responsibilities as american people, failing to address the big issues facing america, failing to address appropriation bills, and that, therefore, 51 are committed to changing the rules, we probably will end up wi
no, if the rules let me do this, i will abuse them. that's what's happened. >> senator, i got to ask you, you know, the option that senator reid may use to pass filibuster reform is referred to as the nuclear option, which doesn't exactly smack of bipartisanship, and even 134 senate democrats, like carl evan and chuck schumer, have said this is not necessarily the right way to go about it. is there any concern that if this is passed through the nuclear option, that that increases partisan...